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TOEFL考试常考100词
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作者：福来德 来源：http://www.51Tes
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abyss: hole so deep as to appear bottomless acquiesce: agree, accept without protest affable: polite and friendly, easy to talk to affliction: distress, suffering affluent: wealthy, abundant agitate: move, shake, stir up ambiguous:shavingsmore then one meaning annex: take possession of aqueous: of or like water arduous: demanding great effort, strenuous aroma: quality or surrounding atmosphere considered typical atone: make repayment avarice: greed bellicose: inclined to fighting calisthenics: exercises to develop strong bodies captor: person who takes smb captive concoct: invent, prepare by mixing together dangle: hand or swing loosely deprive: take away from, prevent from using diligent: hard-working disrobe: undress docile: easily trained or controlled doleful: dismal, mourful drought: a long period of dry weather dubious: feeling doubt dumbfound: astonish efface: rub or wipe out, obliterate elucidate: to make understandable enchant: charm, delight e ndeavor: to make an effort, to try very hard endorse: approve, support a claim or statement enthral: take the whole attention, enslave exploit: to use for selfish advantage or profit extensive: far-reaching extol: to praise highly flimsy: lacking solidarity, strength fraud: a fault, a deception gaudy: too bright and showy ghastly: death-like, pale and ill grumble: to complain harass: worry, trouble heretic: very busy; active impediment: smth that hinders (esp in speech) indigenous: native insatiate: never satisfied intrepid: fearless irate: angry jeopardy: danger leash: control loafer: an idle, lazy person lucrative: profitable lustrous: bright; shining malign: to slander meddle: to interfere, to intrude mend: to repair mirth: being merry and happy nausea: feeling of sickness neglect: pay no attention to nocturnal: of or in the night obese: very fat obsolete: no longer useful, outdated perch: take up a high position pervade: spread through every part of petulant: unreasonably impatient or irritable pillage: plunder (esp in war) presumptuous: too bold or self-confident quashed : annuled quenching: satisfy, put an end to, put out refurbished: make clean, as if like new rejoicing: happiness, joy reticent: in the habit of saying little reverberate: be sent back, again and again rigor: sternness, strictness, severe conditions rotundity: state of being round salvage: the saving of property from loss scattered: not situated together shatter: to breaksintosmany pieces shunned: avoided, kept away from sketchy: shortly, roughly, quickly sporadic: happening from time to time stifled: suppressed, kept back strive: to make great efforts, to struggle subsequent: following succumb: yield, die taciturn: unspoken, silent tantalize: raise hopes that cannot be realized tentative: uncertain, probable torpid: dull and slow treacherous: not to be trusted, perfidious tremor: thrill tyro: a beginner uproar: noise and excitement vanity: a foolish pride vehemence: forcefulness; intensity; conviction vigilance: watchfulness vindicate: prove the truth voluptuous: arousing sensual pleasures wan: looking ill, not bright wile: a trick wrinkle: make small lines (eg forehead) |